President Obama will mark Hurricane Katrina anniversary with a speech in New Orleans

President Obama will mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina today with a speech at Xavier University.

The Associated PressPresident Barack Obama

According to the White House, the president will commemorate lost lives and shared sacrifices, celebrate the resilience of a people and the progress that has been made to rebuild the city better than before, and recommit the nation to repairing the region so recently wounded, again, by the BP oil spill.

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